Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 123; Houzeau & Lancaster, 8940.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/span><\/p>\n This work contains for the first time Laplace’s theory on a “n\u00e9buleuse primitive”.<\/p>\n “In addition to Laplace, the professors of exact science were Lagrange, Monge, Ha\u00fcy, and Berthollet. Together with colleagues expounding natural history, geography, and political economy, they lectured in the auditorium of the Jardin des plantes<\/i> before audiences of more than 1,200 pupils… The program announces for [Laplace’s] course had committed him to treat also of the differential and integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy. Time did not permit, and he would simply refer his auditors to a book that he had in preparation, to be entitled Description du syst\u00e8me du monde<\/i>, in which he would give a nonmathematical account of all that had been discovered in these subjects. Whatever the comprehension of his lecture on the overcrowded benches of a noisy auditorium, the promised book proved to be one of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed” (DSB., Suppl.).<\/p>\n Good copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (205 x 125 mm) 314 pp., 2 nn.ll. for volume I; 312 pp., 2 nn.ll. for volume II. Modern green morocco backed boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1316],"class_list":{"0":"post-73075","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-astronomy","8":"pa_auteur-laplace-pierre-simon-2","9":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Pierre Simon LAPLACE","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Imp. du Cercle-Social, An IV (1796)","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n